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Detail of The Scream 1895, Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Private Collection, Norway. Photo: Thomas Widerberg.
LONDON.- This April, the British Museum will present a major new exhibition on the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Edvard Munch: love and angst will focus on Munchs remarkable and experimental prints an art form which made his name and at which he excelled throughout his life and will examine his unparalleled ability to depict raw human emotion. It will be the largest exhibition of Munchs prints in the UK for 45 years. The exhibition is a collaboration with Norways Munch Museum, and includes nearly 50 prints from their collection, one of the biggest loans of prints the Oslo-based Museum has given internationally. Displayed alongside important Munch works from the British Museum collection and other loans from the UK and Europe, the 83 artworks on show will together demonstrate the artists skill and creativity in expressing the feelings and experiences of the human condition ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Event Horizon Telescope Director Sheperd Doeleman reveals the first photograph of a black hole during a news conference organized by the National Science Foundation at the National Press Club April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
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 | | Rembrandt masterpiece to go on view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill | | Getty Conservation Institute and Eames Foundation announce adoption of conservation management plan for Eames House | | Claude Lalanne, French sculptor with playful touch, dies at 93 | 
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Self-portrait with Two Circles c.1665 (detail). Oil on canvas, 1143 mm x 940 mm. English Heritage, The Iveagh Bequest (Kenwood, London) © Historic England Photo Library.
LONDON.- Rembrandts masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665) will go on view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, heralding a new alliance between the international gallery and English Heritagethe charity entrusted with the care of this painting and more than 500,000 other paintings and artifacts, together with more than 400 historic sites across England. Rembrandts legendary painting will be the centerpiece of an exhibition of self-portraits that will also include works by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as leading contemporary artists such as Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Rudolf Stingel, among others. A new work created by Jenny Saville in response to Rembrandts self-portrait will be revealed for the first time. Entry to the exhibition is free. The partnership ... More | | 
View of the east facade of the residence, 2017. The honest expression of structure and the creative use of color, texture, and varied materials are among the attributes that demonstrate the aesthetic significance of the building complex. Photo: Joshua White, © Eames Office.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Conservation Institute and the Eames Foundation announced today the completion of a comprehensive Conservation Management Plan for the Eames House. The house, built by renowned designers Charles and Ray Eames, is a National Historic Landmark. The plan provides the framework for the ongoing care, management, conservation, display, and interpretation of the site, including the house and studio, the collection of objects in the home, and the landscape. The Eames Foundations adoption of the plan celebrates the 70th anniversary of the homes construction. An overview of the plan can be viewed here. While the GCI undertakes initiatives all over the world, it is critical to recognize the important organizations that we engage locally, like our work at ... More | | 
Claude Lalanne in her studio in Ury, France. Photo by Paul Kasmin.
PARIS (AFP).- The French artist Claude Lalanne, part of the Lalanne sculptor couple whose surreal yet often functional works are highly prized by collectors, died on Wednesday aged 93, her agent told AFP. For decades Lalanne formed a distinctive duo with her fellow sculptor and husband Francois-Xavier Lalanne, creating works whose fans included fashion giant Yves Saint Laurent and the iconoclastic French singer Serge Gainsbourg. She had been taken to a hospital in Fontainebleau, south of Paris after suffering a stroke. "Claude Lalanne had the simplicity of artists who work with their hands to build their own poetic world, without worrying about anything else," the gallery owner Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand, a nephew of former French president Francois Mitterrand, said. The artist, who was still working in her studio in the village of Ury last week, studied architecture at Paris's renowned Beaux Arts school before turning to art. "Les Lalanne" as the couple were known -- she met her husband, who died in ... More |
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| | | First solo exhibition in London of American artist Robert Reed opens at Pilar Corrias | | Demas Nwoko's lost masterpiece discovered under a bed in Boston | | First UK solo exhibition by Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi opens at The Mosaic Rooms in London | 
Robert Reed, San Romano, Ten And One Half, 1984. Aquatec acrylic on canvas, unfinished with pencil marks, 213.4 x 182.9 cm. 84 x 72 in.
LONDON.- Pilar Corrias is presenting the first solo exhibition in London of American artist Robert Reed (1938 - 2014) focussing on the San Romano Series executed between 1979 and 1984. This body of work consists of ten large paintings that combine colourful abstract forms with a sense of geometric composition and perspective derived from the Italian Renaissance. These works were a direct response to Paolo Ucellos The Battle of San Romano (c. 1438 40) which Reed saw at the National Gallery in London in 1979. Uccellos mid-fifteenth century masterpiece resonated with the formal questions Reed was engaged with in his abstract compositions. The activity, the clash, the pomp, and circumstance
the organized confusion was something that I identify with very much, he said in 1986. I began to develop a vocabulary which became the vocabulary through which I speak now, but it came directly from those painti ... More | | 
Demas Nwoko, The Bicyclists. Estimate: US$70,000-100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Bicyclists, a lost masterpiece by Nigerian artist Demas Nwoko, will be offered at Bonhams new sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art in New York on Thursday 2 May 2019. The work, which had not been seen since 1961 when it was first exhibited at the Mbari arts festival in Lagos, was recently found under a bed in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an estimate of US$70,000-100,000. The story of the paintings discovery, which shows four children on three bicycles swerving ominously out of the path of an oncoming lorry, is extraordinary. It was unearthed in the house belonging to the descendants of J. Donald Kingsley, the former head of the Ford Foundation in Africa. Kingsley was a collector of African Art and bought the painting while acting as advisor to the civil service in Nigeria between 1958 and 1962. On his return to Boston, The Bicyclists came back with him and it wasnt until Kingsleys family were clearing ou ... More | | 
Mohamed Melehi, Flamme, (1975). Cellulose paint on wood, 109.5 x 95.5cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- To complete the tenth anniversary modernist series The Mosaic Rooms presents New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School, the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi (b. 1936). This display of unseen paintings, posters, photographs and archival material will look at three significant periods of Melehis career. Firstly the exhibition explores the period 1957 to 1963 during the artists encounter with a cosmopolitan post-war art scene principally between Rome and New York, two cities where Melehi sharpens his very singular appropriation of hard edge painting. The exhibition moves on to the period 1963 to 1975 when, fulfilled by his participation in the New York art scene, Melehi nevertheless chooses to return to a post-colonial Morocco. There he triggers a cultural and artistic revolution at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts of Casablanca with artists Farid Belkhahia (19342014) an ... More |
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| | | Olympia Auctions to offer record of the battle of the last stronghold of Indian independence of 1858 | | Ferens acquires work by world-class East Yorkshire artist Ian McKeever | | Swann Galleries to sell 16th century official record of pirates, buried treasure and the hangman's noose | 
Crealock inscription.
LONDON.- Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, was the last stronghold of Indian Independence by the beginning of May 1858, under the leadership of Khan Bhadur Khan Rohilla, who had declared himself Nawab of the city. General Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, along with Captain George Stewart and Sir William Mansfield led the British Army along with a number of East India Company troops and recaptured the city in a day. Henry Hope Crealock had an impressive military career, serving with distinction in Crimea, again in the second Opium War in China with the Expeditionary Force and in India with Sir William Rose Mansfield. In 1860 he was appointed as Lord Elgin's military secretary in China and served there until the Austro-Prussian war when he was made military attaché in Vienna. From 1874-1877 he was Quartermaster General in Ireland. Crealock commanded the first division in the Anglo-Zulu ... More | | 
Ian McKeever, Portrait of a Woman (detail).
HULL.- Ferens Art Gallery has acquired a painting by one of the regions most celebrated artists with a generous grant from Art Fund. The stunning triptych - a canvas in three parts - is called, Portrait of a Woman, and was recently displayed at the gallery as part of the exhibition, Ian McKeever: Paintings 1992-2017. The painting is currently on display in Gallery 3 with five works on paper that were generously donated by the artist. McKeever is widely regarded as one of the most significant British painters of his generation. He grew up in Withernsea and became familiar with the Ferens collection as a boy. The Portrait of a Woman painting is part of a wider series of the same name. The title of the group alludes to McKeevers fascination with the history of portraiture from Early Renaissance Italian painting to modern photography. The work has been acquired using the Ferens Endowment Fund with the assistance o ... More | | 
The manuscript records how Baltasar de Melo, the tribunal official who collected money and received evidence, complained about the comisario's persistent absenteeism, and how it indefinitely postponed the resolution of crucial issues surrounding the capture of the pirates. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- He sailed with Sir Francis Drake, turned pirate and raided Spanish ships for gold and silver, before meeting a grisly end in the hangmans noose. Now the tale of the 16th century English privateer John Oxenham is revealed in this contemporary manuscript, recording events from 1578-83, coming up for sale at Swann Auction Galleries on April 16. Oxenham first sailed to America under Sir Francis Drake in 1572, and from 1576 to 1578 led a bold expedition to Spanish-held Panama. With support from the local Cimarron runaway slave community, he and his 57 men wintered at Panama, built a ship on the Pacific coast, and in the spring launched a surprise ... More |
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| | | Louis Grachos to step down as Executive Director and CEO of The Contemporary Austin | | Candy Spelling Collection shines in Heritage Auctions' Spring Luxury Auction | | Courtney J. Martin named Director of Yale Center for British Art | 
Since 2013, Grachos has skillfully directed the rebranding of The Contemporary Austin and grown its two locations. Photo: Leonid Furmansky.
AUSTIN, TX.- Kathleen Loughlin, President of the Board of Trustees of The Contemporary Austin announced today that Louis Grachos, the museum's Ernest and Sarah Butler Executive Director and CEO since 2013, will step down from his position. Grachos will begin a new position as Executive Director and CEO of the Palm Springs Art Museum in June 2019. Margie Rine, currently serving as the museum's Deputy Director, will act as Interim Director until new leadership is named. "It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that the Board of Trustees makes this announcement," said Loughlin. "Louis' eye for exciting contemporary art, along with his passion and curiosity about the artists of our time, is unrivaled. Thanks to his vision and leadership, The Contemporary Austin has become a strong institution with ambitious programming. His impact ... More | | 
Hermès Shiny Rose Scheherazade Alligator Cinhetic d'Hermès Bag with Palladium Hardware. C, 2018. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.
DALLAS, TX.- High-end handbags from the collection of renowned philanthropist and theater producer Candy Spelling and a collection of lots made by artists collaborating on projects will take center stage in Heritage Auctions' Spring Luxury Accessories Auction April 28 in Dallas. "Collaboration pieces are extremely popular right now with collectors of all levels," Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane D'Amato said, "and any time you can offer collections from someone like Candy Spelling, that represents a rare opportunity that serious collectors can not pass up." The cover lot of the auction's catalog is an Hermès Shiny Rose Scheherazade Alligator Cinhetic d'Hermès Bag with Palladium Hardware (estimate: $20,000-30,000). With protective plastic intact on all four feet, the bag is done in Shiny Rose Scheherazade Alligator ... More | | 
Courtney J. Martin 09 Ph.D. is currently deputy director and chief curator of Dia Art Foundation.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Courtney J. Martin 09 Ph.D., deputy director and chief curator of Dia Art Foundation, will be the next director of the Yale Center for British Art, President Peter Salovey announced today. I am delighted to announce the appointment of Courtney J. Martin, Salovey said. An esteemed scholar of historical and contemporary art, she will use her extensive experience in research, teaching, and curation to further infuse the arts into the universitys work and shape the YCBAs leadership in the field of British art. Martin is familiar with Yale, having earned her doctorate in history of art from the university. As a graduate student, she contributed substantially to the YCBAs award-winning 2007 exhibition, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica. Her dissertation on British art and artists in the 1970s will soon be published as a book. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Martin worked ... More |
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 Exhibition presents works by artists who share a mutual admiration and spiritual connection to natureWINCHESTER, MASS.- Though differing in artistic approach, color schemes, and thesis, each artist of Down Garden Paths shares a mutual admiration and spiritual connection to nature. In this exhibition you will find an exploration and documentation of sustenance that can be harvested from the land, a glimpse of the people that remain farmers despite the changing times, and a concern for the preservation of our planets health. Down Garden Paths is being showcased in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA from April 11 June 2, 2018. Excerpts from the artist statements of each exhibiting artist below: There are still those who continue a close relationship with the land and all it has to offer: hunters, farmers, woodsmen, gardeners, foragers. I want to recognize and honor these individuals and their commitment, ... More Vienna State Opera's ballet academy hit by abuse allegationsVIENNA (AFP).- The ballet academy at Vienna's renowned State Opera was hit Wednesday by allegations of serious physical and mental abuse against its students, as well as sexual assault. The weekly Falter newspaper published findings of a detailed investigation which it said exposed "19th century" methods inflicted on students, illustrating the piece with a photo of the bloodied feet of a student after a day's training. Created in 1771, and currently with 110 pupils aged between 10 and 18, the academy is one of Europe's most prestigious and attracts applicants from across the world. Falter reported that the allegations are being investigated by prosecutors responsible for child protection. The State Opera's French director Dominique Meyer told Austria's ORF TV station that he wanted a "full explanation of everything that has gone wrong in this school". ... More Exhibition explores the essential ideals of the ink painting traditionISTANBUL.- Pera Museum announces its new exhibition Out of Ink: Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art. The exhibition exploring the essential ideals of the ink painting tradition as manifest in the work of 13 contemporary artists at work in China today is on view 11 April 28 July 2019. Pera Museum greets the spring season with new exhibition Out of Ink: Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art. Curated by Karen Smith, the works in the exhibition do not necessarily rely upon conventional materials ink, paper, or brush but encapsulates the cultural spirit of ink. It echoes content familiarly seen in ink painting, such as landscapes or natural forms, as single or juxtaposed elements from the natural world, as well as the role of calligraphy. None of the artists presented here claim to be ink artists. Instead they work ... More Sean Kelly exhibits works by Kris MartinNEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting Kris Martins first solo exhibition with the gallery ?DO GEESE SEE GOD? an unprecedented exhibition and artistic intervention occupying two distinct venues. This groundbreaking two-part exhibition occurs simultaneously at Saint Bavos Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, home to the world-renowned painting by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, commonly referred to as the Ghent Altarpiece, and at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. In a unique collaboration, Martin has been granted exclusive access to work in St. Bavos, integrating his site-specific artwork into the very fabric of the cathedral, remarkably, he has even been allowed to insert an art work into the armature of the Ghent Altarpiece itself. In parallel to Martins extraordinary access in the cathedral, he installed corresponding works ... More Gasworks opens the first UK solo exhibition by New York-based artist, filmmaker and writer, Pedro NevesLONDON.- Gasworks presents the first UK solo exhibition by New York-based artist, filmmaker and writer, Pedro Neves Marques, in collaboration with London-based music producer HAUT. It Bites Back features new and existing works based on a laboratory in São Paulo that breeds geneticallyengineered mosquitoes. Transgenic male mosquitoes are designed to reduce the insects population by passing a lethal gene on to their offspring when released into the wild. Ranging from analogue film to sound installation, digital animation and poetry, Neves Marques exhibition interrogates the laboratory as a place that defines the biopolitics of the 21st Century. Working across theory and fiction, Neves Marques films and writings trace the histories of colonialism past and present, weaving a constant dialogue with contemporary issues of political ecology, science and technology. ... More National Portrait Gallery calls for entries to Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019LONDON.- Entry is now open for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, the leading international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. The National Portrait Gallery, London is inviting submissions from Wednesday 10 April until 23.59 on Tuesday 11 June 2019. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world. Photographers are encouraged to interpret portrait in its widest sense, with photography focused on portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals. The winner of the competition will receive £15,000, with second prize receiving £3,000 and third prize £2,000. The National Portrait Gallerys Photographic Portrait Prize, sponsored by international law firm Taylor Wessing since 2008, is one of the most ... More Huxley-Parlour Gallery opens an exhibition featuring the work of seven contemporary artistsLONDON.- Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, is presenting New Mythologies: Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Painting, an exhibition featuring the work of seven contemporary artists including Eileen Cooper RA, John Copeland and Iris Schomaker. The exhibition explores the complexities inherent to image making and representation and examines how each artist extends the narrative potential of their figurative work through abstraction. Through a tightly curated selection of twenty works made in the past 12 years, the exhibition presents a number of diverse approaches to contemporary figuration and to materiality, whilst highlighting the shared affinities and common approaches to painting held between these seven artists. Each artist uses their own particular form of mark making from the gestural and intuitive to the precise to explore storytelling, ... More Ketterer Kunst announces an online book auctionHAMBURG.- As a consequence of the excellent results that the 1 Fine Art Auctions have yielded and just in time for the companys 65th anniversary, Ketterer Kunst launches a broad online presence for its Rare Books Department. The saleroom auction in Hamburg on May 27 will be accompanied by an online book auction that runs from May 1-29. All objects of the online offer will be called up with a starting price of 1 . This extremely attractive calling price promises thrilling bidding races. The bibliophile gems from five centuries have estimate prices of up to 10,000 and a sales volume of around 90,000. In total around 100 objects from fields such as Architecture, Facsimiles, Children's Books, Modern Literature, Natural History and World Literature will go under the virtual hammer. Next to Johann Jakob Marinonis important astronomical main work De astronomica ... More Diamonds, Ceylon sapphires should spark top bids at Heritage Auctions' Spring Fine Jewelry AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Colorless and fancy colored diamonds, Ceylon sapphires and a dazzling array of gem set jewelry will be in high demand at Heritage Auctions' Spring Fine Jewelry Auction April 29 in Dallas, Texas. The sale offers a beautifully curated selection of jewelry from fine designer brand names, a list that includes Cartier, DeBeers, David Webb, Tony Duquette, Tiffany and Van Cleef & Arpels. The event also includes an exceptional assemblage of rare gems, including Columbian Emeralds, Rubies and Spinels from Burma, Ceylon Sapphires and a Chameleon Diamond. "We are very pleased to offer such a wide variety of richly hued jewels, many with vibrant spring colors," Heritage Auctions Senior Director of Fine Jewelry Jill Burgum said. "There is a balance of materials from the 1800s to present, with a strong emphasis on well-made and mid-century pieces, and ... More First survey devoted to American photographer David Lebe on view in PhiladelphiaPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first survey devoted to American photographer David Lebe. Long Light examines his remarkable artistic range and adventurous experimentation over five decades, including his powerful representations of gay experience and living with AIDS. The exhibition of 145 photographs created from 1969 to the present is drawn primarily from the museums collection and celebrates the gift of more than 100 of these works from the artist. Early in his career, when Lebe lived in Philadelphia, he embraced elementary, low-tech ways of making photographs, experimenting with the use of pinhole cameras, camera-less photograms, and light drawings. The subjects of these engaging works included Lebe himself, his friends, his home and its objects, and the male figure. The exhibition opens with a selection ... More Swann announces largest offering of Latin American work to date in Old Master through Modern printsNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints, which offers the most comprehensive range of Old Master prints found in North America, as well as the houses largest offering of Latin American prints and originals to date, comes across the block Thursday, May 2. A comprehensive selection of Latin American prints and originals is set to come across the block. Compiled into a separate catalogue, the material includes scarce Rufino Tamayo MixografÃa prints: Dos Personajes atacados por Perros, 1983, an ambitious and large-scale print offered at $15,000 to $20,000, and Sandias con Manzana, 1985, is present at $7,000 to $10,000. Also of note is Tamayos 1973 portfolio Los Signos Existen, with six colored lithographs ($10,000-15,000). Diego Rivera is represented by a 1949 conte crayon drawing Bailarina Enmascarada en la Carnival ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Chris Burden was born April 11, 1946. Christopher Lee "Chris" Burden (April 11, 1946 - May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. In this image: Operator Alison Walker watches miniature cars move along the roads in Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles.
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